Tilting support for casks.



115.808,104. l PATRNTRD DRG. 26, 1905. H. G. MILLER R G. R. LAWRENCE.TILTING SUPPORT PoR cAsKs.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.27,1905.

Us ITEDA STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY G. MILLER ND GEORGE R. LAIVYRETYCE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TILTING SUPPORT i-ivon cAsKs.

l Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Appunti@ mea February 27, 1905. seria No. 247.447.

To all whonb it may concern:

Beit known that we, HENRY G. MILLER and GEORGE R. LAWRENCE, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga. andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTilting Supports for Casks. of which the following is a specification,the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best modein which we have contemplated applying thatprinciple, so as todistinguish it from other inventions. n

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detailone mechanical form embodying the invention, such detail constructionbeingr but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of theinvention may be used.

Y In said annexed drawings, Figure I represents a side elevation of ourimproved tilting support for casks, and Fig. II an end elevation of thesame.

This support is essentially devised for supporting casks under a rackingdevice and thereupon tipping the filled and bunged cask onto inclinedwayj, down which it will roll to be further disposed of.

A rock-shaft l is journaled in suitable sup- 'ports 2 and has twoupwardly-extending arms 3, formed with concave-curved heads 4,which forma cradle in which the cask rests. Said cross -heads project fartherrearward than forward, and the lowermost point of the segmental curve ofthe cross-heads is to the rear of the vertical-plane of the rock-shaft,so that the cask resting in the cradle formed by the cross-heads willtend to tilt the same rearward. An arm 5 extends downward from therock-shaft, and a pitman 6 is pivoted to the end of this arm and to apiston 7 in a cylinder 8. This cylinder has a valve-chamber 9 at itsclosed end, which chamber has a port l0, leading into the cylinder, andan opposed port 11, conmiunicating with an inletpipe 12 for air or otherfluid under pressure and also an exhaust-port 13 from the end of thecylinder. A valve 14 slides in the valvechamber and has acircumferential groove 15, which connects the supply-port and inletportwhen thc valve is moved to one position and uncovers the exhaustort toexpose the same to the open end of t c valve-chamber when the valve ismoved to the opposite )osition. The valve has a stem 16, to whic a lever17 is pivoted, and said lever is fulcrumed at its opposite end and has atreadle 18, by means of which it may be depressed, and a spring 19, bywhich it is raised. Inclined rails 20 extend froln points about in linewith the cradle when in rest position to the point of delivery for thefilled casks.

In practice the Cask is placed on the curved heads forming the cradleand is filled in the usual or any accepted manner. When the cask isfilled and the bung has been driven to close the cask, the operatordcpresses the treadlc, `which depresses the lever and the Ja-ive,placing the supply-port and inlet-port in communication. This admitsmotive fluid, such as compressed air, into the c linder to'drive thepiston outward and ti ting the cradle so as to swing the cask onto therails, down which it then may run by gravity. W'hen the treadle isreleased, the spring raisesthe lever and valve, which latter uncoversthe exhaust-port, so that the air may escape at the end ofthevalve-chamber. The cradle may now be returned to its upright position bypiacing a fresh cask in it, and the weight of the cask upon the longarms of the cross-heads will return the cradle to its position of restand force the piston in the cylinder back to exhaust the air from thelatter. In this manner a Cask may be supported to be filled and mayeasily and conveniently be tipped and rolled from its support whenfilled. l

Other modes of applying the principle of our invention may be employedfor the mode herein 'explained Change may therefore be made-as regardsthe mechanism thus disclosed, provided the principles of constructionset forth, respectively, in the following claims are employed.

We Vtherefore particularlyY point out and distinctly claim as ourinvention- 1. The combination with inclined` ways along which a cask mayroll, of a rocking support iirwhich a cask may rest and at a level withtheupper end vof said ways and having its center of gravity in a planeto one side of the vertical plane of its fulcrum, a single-actingfluid-pressure cylinder, a piston in the same and connected to thesupport to rock the same, and means for admitting and exhausting motivefluid into and out of the cylinder..

2. The combination with inclined Ways along which a cask may roll, of arocking support consisting of a rock-shaft having twoupwardly-projecting arms formed with segmentally-curved cross-heads attheir upper IOO 2 Y A :aoiemol:r

ends and said cross-heads having the lowerl In testimony that We claimthe foregoing 1o most Point of their curve in a plane to the to be ourinvention We have hereunto set our rear o the jvertifl pluie of tbl?rock-shag, ein hands this 8th day of September, A. D. 1904. armprojectinv om t e roe shaft, a ui T 5 pressure cylinder, a. piston inthe same, a pitman pivoted to the piston and to the arm, a l valve forcontrolling inlet and exhaust into Witnesses: j sind out ofthe cylinder,and a treadle eon- WVM. SECHER,

nected to aetuate said valve. C.A E. JOHNSON, Jr.

